/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.3962379]

ITT: Critically acclaimed games, or games loved by /vr/ that you just can't get into.

I want to like baldurs gate, because I love strategy games and tactics games. But there's no real variation to gameplay. You put on your 100 hundred buffs, locust the casters and send your melee dudes while pausing every 2 seconds to cast magic missles. Then you sleep and do it again.

[Anonymous No.3962381]

Wow, go back to your JRPGs you weabofaggot.

[Anonymous No.3962383]

>>3962381
i HATE jrpgs, but nice try.

[Anonymous No.3962410]

I have a few:

>Furi
I just think the mechanics suck. As someone who likes DMC and bullet hell games a lot, it really surprised me how tedious the game was after getting the parry timing down.
>Planescape: Torment
I like novels. I like video games. But I don't like novels in my video games. The same thing keeps me from enjoying VNs. I have a lot of fun with mechanics heavy RPGs (like dungeon crawlers), but story driven ones just can't sustain my interest.
>Dead Space 2
It's just such a disappointment. The creepy atmosphere of the first is turned into a necromorph haunted house ride. Enemies pretty much throw themselves into your line of sight to die. Isaac fucking talks.
>Zelda
I just don't have the "enjoy 3D zelda games" gene.

[Anonymous No.3962426]

>>3962379
Banjo and Kazooie does it for me. It's offensively bland and feels like it should be in a creepy pasta for the atmosphere alone. It just feels weird and uncomfortable with bland gameplay but people love it to the point of trying to remake it with shitty new animals.

[Anonymous No.3962429]

>>3962410
Halt! What be these yonder games thou speaketh of? I doth knoweth only of the Torments on the Yonder Planes, and that of Zelda short of Fitzgerald. What be this... singular Furie, and those Spaces Twice Deceesed?

[Anonymous No.3962430]

I hated Doom.

[Anonymous No.3963016]

>>3962379
That isn't the only strategy. I don't use it.

[Anonymous No.3963114]

Super Mario 64. When it came out I tried it at the store, I just couldn't get past how the camera worked.
I tried again recently and it still shit me. I know it's popular and it's probably my fault (git gud I know) but I just don't enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.3963117]

>>3962379
Earthbound for me. It's clunky and generally really tiresome to play and lacking any depth gameplay-wise. I know that it's noted for the humor but so far I don't seem to get any of it, or maybe that's simply because I'm not murican?

[Anonymous No.3963609]

>>3962379

Final Fantasy 5, 6, 7

Hate them.

[Anonymous No.3963627]

>>3962379
I get why people like the Mario games, but all of them and platformers in general have never appealed to me much at all.

[Anonymous No.3963637]

>>3962379
shadow of the colossus

[Anonymous No.3963638]

Mario kart, mario 64, zeldas, earthbound.

Nintendo are marketing geniuses.

[Anonymous No.3964267]

>>3962379
>>3963609


The game you linked ironically.

But also Final Fantasy - ANY game in the series. Why this blasphemy you implore... its due to missing most of them and then I played Chrono Trigger and it has most of the same mechanics but without any of the random encounters.

I saw someone play FF7 and the lack of health potions plus the random encounters (rather stupid ones) didn't make the game look playable at all.

Im not a big fan of open world games like that, where you're dropped into it and its like "here you go, have fun". End up wandering to all sorts of different places not knowing where im supposed to go because each one only has proper quests or locations opened up after you trigger other things.
> not interested in playing it over and over again to find out the correct place to go.

Tabletop RPG is better because at least I can find something to do, look for trouble or whatever, and the plot eventually will find me (due to DM frustration).

>>3963114
I agree, there's alot of N64 games that I just go WTF for. The technology wasnt good enough and they didnt understand the kind of mechanics necessary to run a game like that in 3d (for instance, no fixed 8 way movement).

Zelda OOT I felt like this about too, and its almost identical to Super Mario 64 in so many ways.

They should have done a much comfier (read: SOTN level comfy) version of Zelda for the 64 and incorporated 3d effects into it, but left it as a 2D game. Im talking like Minish Cap level dynamics, special moves.

> and a Swordbeam for fucks sake

A couple other games I could never get into were Earthworm Jim or Donkey Kong.

Even though the screenshots I saw of DK looked rather impressive graphics wise - I absolutely fucking hate Monkeys and Gorillas. Thats the kinda thing I ought to be shooting or killing in a game, not supporting.


>>3963638
OP was saying games you Cant Get Into despite the hype. Not which ones you loved. Unless thats what you're saying here.

[Anonymous No.3964278]

>>3964267

If your Zelda game does not have a Swordbeam
> it is dead to me

[Anonymous No.3964279]

>>3964267
>I saw someone play FF7 and the lack of health potions
>lack of health potions
Eh? Did you really see the right game?

[Anonymous No.3964878]

>>3962379
Fallout 1 and 2. There's nothing wrong with them, I just find them boring to look at and the font colors are hard to read. I've played both to finish but I can't "get into" them and love them. Once was enough for each which is a shame since it seems like doing different builds is where the real fun is at.

[Anonymous No.3964881]

>>3964267
>lack of health potions

You can have 99 potions, 99 hi-potions, 99 x-potions, and 99 elixirs all at the same time. If anything I'm always selling them off because all that garbage is cluttering my inventory.